Martha went on to add that, being ‘full of life with a big personality’, Sam just loves to express himself in different ways.

When his father learned of his son’s traumatic experience, he put his journalistic skills to work and vented about how upset he was that a part of his son’s innocence had been stolen.

He posted on Twitter,

This is my son, Sam. He’s 5. And today he learned how shitty and harmful #ToxicMasculinity is. My rage meter is spiking right now so excuse me if this is a little raw but there are some things I want to say about BS #gender norms (a thread) pic.twitter.com/NtoE2VHKsU

Continuing in a thread, he emphasized that his son was devastated at the actions of his schoolmates, including his friends, then drew attention to a salient part of this discourse:

I know these kids are only in kindergarten but this toxic masculinity bullshit is LEARNED. Learned most of the time from parents. So parents, I hope you’re proud. I hope this is what you wanted. I hope you’re satisfied.

After seeing the amount of support on Twitter, including former NFL player Martellus Bennett’s tweet about how he loves to polish his nails with his daughter, Sam was back to his boisterous self.

Rounding off the Twitter thread, Aaron encouraged his son to be brave, keep shining bright and to remember that his parents will always be there for him. Then, he concluded:

Be brave and shine bright, my beautiful polished boy. Know that mom and dad always have your back and if the rest of the world has a problem with your nails, they can check out my nail polish! pic.twitter.com/fvjD2IZnNQ

Sam has a collection of purses because he likes to carry things around. And he also loves to have his nails painted bright colors because he thinks they “look beautiful.” And he’s right – they are beautiful… pic.twitter.com/tdMdpJZH5w